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GREAT SALE “tsa provements the Of Building Lots at Souris,

Potato Digger, | intend giving an exhibition of the new invention in a field belonging to |

Canon Farrar, the now somewhat famous | you would know what your fathers thought A é " a : . . “ _ Church of England dignitary, preached a of these things, look at Hogarth’s pictures. | JX CORSETS sermon lately in Westminster Abbey, on And if yon will not take the testimony of | ‘THE LATEST art, take the testuneny ot science. In the! NOW ARRIVING AT THE year L750 the London physicians drew up. } '

He appears to be in favor}a memorial to the eflect that there had! LON Dar HOUSK,

of Prohibition, but he admits that there heen 14,000 cases of fatal illness attribu-| s, ptember 13, 1878 | } Me i "} , ie @ } . vs “79 JEOe wasa time when, although a Prohibitory table to gin alone ; and one of the most: Sista

INVENTION the National Sin, which, according to him,

1s drunkenness.

| BY AUCTION, ON

estimable prelates of that day—Benson.' . | Mr. Walter Grant, near P. M. Bourke’s aw ‘ rt 3 ist, r .e ‘SS as i _e ‘ : j : ay enson ae Sk com> i . law did ne ae a drunkenness was: uot Bishop of Gloucester—wrote : ‘ Our people @ va Migs See | Saturday, 28th Se tember prevalent. He said :- have become what they never were before & t : oo Pw res pt ’ And, alas! my brethren, but for these}— cruel and inhuman. These accursed 2d Saturday, the Ast; September, jen arrival of train from Charlottetown, at liquors, which, to the shame of our Gov-| 2 '

spirits England need not be a drunken na- tion. The day was when she was not a drunken nation. Here, at the very central point of English history, listen to a page of your own history. In the reign of that ereat King, Henry V., who enlarged his abbey, in his army of heroic victors—the army of Agincourt—drunkenness was deemed an utter disgrace; and King Harry was so impressed with the curse of it that he wanted to cat down all the vines in France. Not yet accustomed, as one has said, ‘* to pour oil of vitriol on the roses of her youth’—not yet accustomed to apply hot and rebellious liquors in the blood of her children, England at that day might have said to one or other of her then not numerous drunkards—

“*T know thee not, old man ; ers,

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester,

| long have dreamt of such a kind of man —

So surfeit-swelled, so old and so profane;

But, being waked, | do despise my dream.

*

fall to thy pray-

. ~—And know the grave doth

Gape for thee thrice wider than for other men,”

The great antiquary, Camden, who lies buried in yonder aisle, said that in his day drunkeness was a recent vice; and other writers say that ‘‘We brought the foul vice of intemperance frsm our wars in the Netherlands, as we brought back the foul disease of leprosy from the Crusades.” In the bad reaction which followed the Res- toration, when people broke lose from Puritan restriction to plunge into abomin- able license, the evil habit was enormously increased, and many a great statesman, and many a great writer, at a subsequent epoch, shattered his nerves and shortened his life by drink. But it was about 1724, as we are told by the historian of the eighteenth century, that gin-drinking began to affect the masses of English people, and to spread with the rapidity and violence of anepidemice. ‘‘Small,” he says, ‘‘as is the place which this fact occupies in English history, it was, probably, if we consider all the consequencés that flowed from it, the most monstrous in that eighteenth century, because from that year the fatal passion for drinking was implanted in the nation.” Yes, it isonly some 150 years ago that there began the disastrous era of the dram- shop and the gin-palace, and from that era ardent spirits began to madden the brain, to poison the blood and to brutalize the habits of the lower classes. Those poison- ous draughts of liquid fire which are at this moment the scathing curse of myriads, which are the fellest and foulest tempta- tions with which our working classes have to struggle, about that time replaced the comparatively harmless wines of ancient days. The Jewish rabbis have a legend that when the first vineyard was planted, Satan rejoiced, and said to Noah that he should have his account in the results. And in truth the wine cup, which poets so extol, has, as Solomon has told us, been the causes of woes enough ; but if ever the spirits of evil hailed a potent ally with shouts of triumph, it must have been when that thing was discovered which, regarded as a harmless luxury by the virtuous, acts as a subtile and soul-destroying ruin of the unsuspecting—that thing in the use of which ‘“intemperance, the great murderer of millions, doth creep for shelter into houses of moderation.”

But to return tohistory. Ardent spirits had not been long introduced to England when the Grand Jury of Middlesex, ina powerful presentinent, declared that much

the greater part of the poverty, the rob-|

beries, the murders of London might be

traced to this single cause. Even the morals}

of the eighteenth century, bad as they were, did not aequiesce in this public dem- oralization as we, with our consciences seared with the hot irou of custom, are con- tent to acquiesce. In the year 1736 a strenuous attempt was made to stem the rising tide of shame and ruin. Against the Gin Act, as it was called, Lord Chesterfield, the most polished and brilliant peer of his day, flung his whole influence, alas! in vain. When I quote his words to you, remember you are listening to a professed man of the world, perfectly cool headed,the mirror of fashion, the idol of society, yet speaking simply as a patriot from ordinary observation of notorious results. Had he used such language now—had he used such language in the pulpit instead of in the

House of Peers, he would have been called |

an intemperate Pharisee; but he spoke to an age not yet hardened by time to the horrors of dram-drinking. ‘* Vice, my lords,” he said, ‘tis not properly to be taxed, butto be suppressed. Luxyry, my lords, may very properly be taxed; Sut the use of those things which are simply hurt- ful—hurtful in their own nature and im every degree, is to be prohibited. If these

liquors are so delicious that the people are’

tempted to their own destruction, let us at length my lords, secure them from these fatal draughts by bursting the vials that contain them. Let us check these artists in slaughter who have reconciled their countrymen to sickness and to ruin, and who spread over the pitfalls of dcbauchery such habits as cannot be resisted. consider, my lords, the tendency of this bill, I find it calenlated only for the prope- gation of disease, the suppression of in- : dustry and the destruction of

kind.” Sospoke, so thought the great ‘hesterfield of those ardent spirits which, this very day, will be purchased by hun- ‘sand hundreds of men, of women, of

sn, in one hundred and forty houses

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ernment, are so easily to be had, have changed their very nature.” And about the same time the entire bench of English Bishops protested against this act, as found- ed, in their own language, ‘‘ on the indul- gence of debauchers, the encouragement of crime and the destruction of the human race.”

It was amid these protests of ruin—-it

in the voices of men, that in England the shameful and miserable tale began. You know, or you may know, and you ought to know, how it has gone on.

not know; and that can only be fully known to Him who hears, and not in vain, the sighs and moans that load the air—to Him alone who can estimate the area of wreck and ruin, of human agony and hu- man degradation, which is represented by the fact that this country spends £150,000, - 000a yearon drink, and that in this country there are, besides the many who drink, 60,000 drunkards. No; you cannot esti- mate it. You have not, most of you, even one fraction of the knowledge about it which those have who seen it. But need you ignore it ?

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Loeal and Other Items.

Ton Ton Ternvuxun’s Prairie Flower.

A number of City wells are being cleaned while dry.

past five years! ‘fon Ton TernsuKem’s Prairie Flower.

THe sidewalk in front of St. Lawrence

Hotel needs repairs.

NEARLY evey one is pleased with the turn things have taken.

Fireworks at Has- sep18 3i

Ton Ton Teruvuxkum’s Prairie Flower.

Victory! Victory ! zard’s Bookstore.

tev. Geo. W. Hopason is off the Island. Rev. A. T. Richey will officiate in St. Peter’s on Sunday.

A CORRESPONDEMT signing himself *‘ Your Friend,” must explain further, and send his name in confidence.

Ton Ton Ternuavuxum’s Prairie Flower.

Tue steamer Miramichi arrived to-day —dressed in bunting in honor of the great Liberal-Conservative victory.

Ton Ton ‘Teruukum, Medicine Man of the Cherokee Tribe of Indians, will stop at the Revere House for a few days only, where he can be consulted, Callearly 4i

M. A. Cameron has removed his Insur- ance Office to LePage’s Building, Corner of Queen and Sydney Streets, where he will be glad to meet all his old customers, and as many new ones as_ will favor him with their patronage. In a few days he will open out anew Fire Insurance Company, as soon as necessary blanks can be received.

Man Kintep ar Sumwersi pE.—A truck min named John McKenzie,wli'e unloading flour from a Canadian steamer at Summer- side, this morning, was accidentally killed. A barrel tipped, knocked him overboard and fell upon him. He sank immediately and came to the surface dead. He leaves a wife aud children in poor cirenmstances.

| Hox. Mr. Tintey’s majority is 24 and

not 4 as stated. Mr. Tilley will accept the oftice of Finance Minister, which Mr. Cartwright abandoned on Tuesday, and will, therefore, of course, resign his seat and ask for re-election. This will be a great relief to Mr. DeVeber as it will save him the trouble of prosecuting a scrutiny. Moncton Times.

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GENERAL NEWS.

The gross earnings of the Chicago, Mil- wankee and St. Paul road, from January 1 to September 6, amount to $5,606,000, against $4,402,627 in the same period last year. Those of the Chicago and Alton road amount to $3,109,600, an increase of $16,- 632.

Panama adyices of the dth report that the indigo crop of Salvador has been ruined by the grasshoppers, but the coflee crop of both Salvador and Guatemala is superior and in excess of previous years. The Ecuador cocoa crop will be a failure.

The Princess Royal of England and Crown Princess of Germany is a model of She blows out superfluous wax candles with her royal lips, has her chii- dren’s dresses turned and dyed, and locks up delicacies where the servants cannct get at them.

There has been a great increase in the shipments of leather from New York to Europe -recently. Since the first of last January the exports have amounted. to 785,000 sides. The value cf the .annual ‘shipments from that pert is now over $4,-

’

| The wheat fleet gathered in San Francisco

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man- to convey the surplus crop of this season is}

Tailoring Department

bigger than ever before. Forty-four vessels | cleared last month, carrying an average of |

about 1,200 tons each, and there are now some sixty vessels in port, with a carrying,

‘capacity of 2,500,000 tons.

was amid these omens, as it were, from God ||

| ' The extent, |’ indeed, of the calamity you do not and ean-!'

*¢ A Dark Pictvurr’’—the history of the LONDON HOUSE.

~AZ THE—

Charlottetowu, Septemberfl3, 1878.

NOW ARRIVING

—

NEW FRILLINGS

AT THE-

September 13, 1878—

BIRD GAGES. RK ECEIVED per steamer

10 Doz. BIRD CAGES from Si ap. SIMON W. CRABBE,

Sign of the Stove, Queen street. Ch*town, Sept. 18.—6i

PT SET Barrels! Barrels!

VOR sale, cuzar, if applied for immedia- tely, 400 MACKEREL BARRELS. WILLIAM DODD, Auctioneer, Ch’town, Sept. 17—pat 2i

No. 35 Water St,

Charlottetown.

Pringe Baward Island Braneh

-OF THE—

WORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE FIRE AND LIFE.

INSURANCE CO.

$9,733.332.00 1,°216,.666.00

CHIEF OFFICES—Edinburgh, 64 Princess Street ; London, 61 Threadneedle Street. Nine-Tenths of the Profits of the Life Assur-

Subscribed Capital, aid up Capital -

AT 2 O'CLOCK, P, M.,

| to which the public are hereby invited to at-

vend, ‘Those in need of Diggers will do well

to come and see the manner in whieh the | Machine does the work.

DAVID McLEOD, Lot 48, Sept. 7th—sw p ar

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SYDNEY COAL.

20;

REDUCTION IN PRICE !

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC!

fFVUE GENERAL MINING ASSOCIA. TION (Limited) beg to intimate to the Public that the price of SYDNEY COAL has been

Reduced to $2 per ton of 2240 Ibs.,

a price which it is hoped will place it within the reach of all consumers.

The opening of the new winning at ‘‘ THE SYDNEY MINES” and the fact that the SYDNEY COAL now being shipped is all from the DEEP taken in connection with re cent improvements in the process of screening, affords purchasers a positive guarantee of the very superior quality and condition of the SYDNEY COAL now offered for sale.

It is a well-know fact that for many years past the prices of other Cape Breton coals have been regulated by the rates fixed for SYDNEY COAL; but while it is true that other coals, to get a sale at all, have been pressed on the market at various prices under the current rate of SYDNEY COAL, it is no less true that, taking into account the superior lastin qualities of SYDNEY COAL when compared with other Cape Breton coals, the advantage, both as to economy and convenience, is in favor of SYDNEY COAL, even at a much higher price.

The General Mining Association (Limited) regret that they should again have to caution the Public against the attempts being made from time to time to induce them to buy in- ferior coals purporting to be ‘* EQUAL TO SYDNEY,” ‘**‘SUPERIOR TO SYDNEY,” etc., etc., while some yet more unscrupulous vendors have not hesitated to advertise their coal as SYDNEY COAL (from some designated locality). All these efforts to sell coal by such means are only so many admissions on the part of those who make them of the sraNDARD character of SYDNEY COAL, —

it has come to the knowledge of the Asso- ciation that in frequent instances parties givin orders to truckmen and others for SYDNE COAL have been furnished with other and inferior coal. The Public are cautioned against permitting themselves to be imposed upon in this way.

Every vessei loaded at THE SYDNEY MINES is furnished with a certificate of the cargo being Sydney Coal. Parties purchasing should satisfy themselves by demanding the production of this certificate.

The ‘‘ Sydney Coal” is registered under the laws of the Dominion, and unauthorized parties using the Trade Mark “SYDNEY COAL” are hable to prosecution.

CUNARD & MORROW, Agents G. M. A., Halifax, N. S.

» W. DEBLOIS,

CHARLOTTETOWN,

Sole Agent for P. E Island. July 15, 1878—3m

Mortgage Sale.

To be sold by Public AUCTION, on the premises, on Wednesday, the 1ith

ance Business are divided every Five Years. The Tables of Rates are moderate.

description of Property, at the Lowrsr RATEs|

of Premium. corresponding to the nature of;

the risk.

Losses settled with proinptitude and liber- ality.

G. W. DeBLOIs, General Agent.

:0:—-——-

AGENCIES |

—6F- THE— General Mining Association, Limited, —-AND THE—

Halifax Company, Limited. ORDERS FOR COAL,

—ON THE— Old Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Lingan f? " Albion Mines, Picton, N. S,, can be obtained on application to the Subscriber. Terms as

usual, : G. W. DEBLOoIs,

Sole Agent for Prince Edward Island, May 18-—2aw

Decerven eo-nay

igs

(CHOICE PATTERNS)

-—AT—

KING SQUARE HOUSE

BEER & SONS. -

Fire Insurances effected on nearly every |

day of September next, 1878, at

the hour of eleven o'clock, a. m., under

and by virtue of a power of sale contained

in an Indenture of Mortgage, bearing date

the Thirteenth day of February, A. D.

1877, and made between William Murphy,

of Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, in

Prince Edward Island, baker, and Bridget,

his wife, of the one part, and [Fenton T.

Newbery, of Charlottetown, aforesaid, merchant, of the other part,—

A LL that Tract, Piece or Parcel of Land

situate, lying and being in Charlettetown,

aforesaid, being part and parcel of Town Lot

number seventy-one, in the first hundred of

Town Lots in Charlottetown, aforesaid, and

bounded as follows, that is to say : Commenc-

ing at a stake fixed in the north side of Dor-

chester Street, and in south-west corner of

Town Lot number seventy-two, in said hun-

dred of Town Lots, and running from thence

along the western boundary of said lot number (

seventy-two, northwardly, eighty feet ; thence westwardly, parallel with said street, thirty feet, toa Jane or right-of-way eight feet in width, leading from the said street ; thence southwardly, along the said lane or right=of- way, eighty feet, to Dorchester Street, afore- said ; and thence eastwardly along the same thirty feet, to the place of commencement, together with a free use and privilege of the said lane or right-of-way, which is not to be closed up or built on, as is set out in a certain deed of release between James E. 5. and Catherine, his wife, to the said mortgager, dated 18th July, A. D. 1851, together with all houses, buildings, rights, members and appur- tenances to the same belonging.

For particulars apply at the office of Hodgson & McLeod, Solicitors, Charlottetown.

FENTON T. NEWBERY, Mortgagee. Sept. 3, 1878.

The above sale is postpened until WEDNES DAY, the 25th September, 1878, at the hour of 12 o'clock, noon, then to take place on the premises above mentioned.

FENTON T. NEWBERY, Mortgagee. Ch’town, Sept. 11, 1878.—2aw

UBSCRIBE for the DAILY EX-,

Ch’town, June 18, 1878, :

AMINER, the Cheapestand most newsy,/ , R, et | Oh town, Aug. 30, 1878—3m eod

Paper published in the Province.

7 ll o’cLock,

iT FXHE Remainder of McLauchlin’s valuable BUILDING LOTS. :

Train will leave Charlottetown Station at

m., returning same evening,

| Keturn tickets at single fare.

| For full particulars see large handbills.

A, MACNEILL,

Auctioneer.

iS o'clock, a.

Sept. 20, 1878—t sale

AUCTION.

03--—>

\W i, will sell, in front of our Store, om

‘Thursday, the 26th instant,

AT 11 oO’CLock,

The following Consignment of ** Henke’s ” ‘* world-renown ” ‘ Prize Medal”

GHIN EV A,

in single casks or 5 cases.

30 Casks, 30 Quarter-Casks. 100 Cases, CARVELL BRO’'S,

Auctioneers, Ch’town, Sept. 13—pat s side pro t sale

ee omen _

MORTGAGE SALE]

56 Acres, Lot 18, Freehold 33 Acres, Lot 19, Freehold.

TOsBE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION AT Summerside, in Prince County, in front of the New Law Court House MONDAY, the SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, next, (A. D. 1878), at TWELVE 0'¢LocK, noon, under and by virtue of a power of sale, contained in an indenture of Mortgage, bearing date the Eighth day of February, 1877, and wade between William McRae, of Township number Nineteen, in Prince County, in the Province of Prince Edward Island, farmer, and Margaret MeRae, his wife, of the one part, and Ralph Brecken, of Charlottetown Royalty, in Queen’s County, aforesaid. Esquire, of the other part, all the Freehold estate, right, title and in- terest of the said William McRae, in and to:

LL that tract; piece and parcel of

land, hereditament and premises, situate, lying and being, on Township number eizhteen (18) in Prince County, in said Province, and bounded and des- cribed as follows, that is to ay: com- mencing at Point of the march on Indian River, and on the division live between the lands of Roderick Gillis and’ Samuel McRae, thence, in a southerly direction nineteen (19) chains and eighty six (86 links south, twenty six (26) degrees west, thence ina easterly direction fora{distance of thirty one (31) chains, thence in a north erly direction for a distance of abou) fifteen (15) chains, or until it meets the edge of Indian River, aforesaid ; theace following the various windings of said river, to the place or point of commence- ment, containing, by estimation, forty six (46) acres of land, a little more or less.

ALSO, ALL that other tract, piece or parcel of land situated lying and being on Lot or Township number Nineteen, (19) in Prince County, aforesaid, bounded as} fol lows, that is to say: By a Line commencing at a Stake set in the division line, betweeu said Township’s numbers eighteen (18) and nineteen, (19) and inthe West side line o land in possession of Roderick Gillis, and running thence, according to the magnetic meridian of the year 1764, South on said Side Line, fifteen (15) chains, to the Road leading to Mills point ; thence, West, along said road Twenty-two (22) chains, or a dis- tance sufficient to comprise and embrace Thirty-three and one half (334) acres of land, to land in possession of Samuel Mc- Rae ; thence North to said division line, and thence along the same, East, to the place of commmencement,containing thirty three acres and two roods of land a litte more oraless, together with all buildings and improvements thereon and appurten- ances to the same belonging,

For further particulars, apply to Messrs. Brecken & FrrzGera.p, Solicitors, Charlotte- town.

Dated this 16th day of August, A. D., 1878.

,ALPH BRECKEN, Mortgagee. August 23, 1875—sj till sale.

QUEEN INSURANCE 60,Y,

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL, . . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on V s on the stocks. ’ Special rates for isolated residences. Lovses settled promptly. GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877—

a a

Marine Insurance (0.

AVE made arrangements with the Ocean Marine Insurance Co. of Halifax and the British American Assurance™Co. of Toronto (both offices of undoubted standing), whereby they can effect insurance on V Cargoes or Freight in the above-named offices, in addi- tion to the risks taken in their own office. | g@ Risks taken daily at their Office, corner Great € teorge ant Lower Water Streets,

F. W. HALES, See’y.

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